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Well...I made it!!
After a rather entertaining trip from Jodhpur to Mumbai where I nearly walked straight into a Bollywood film star; I flew down to Trivandrum, where I arrived at the Kings World trust early last week. There are 14 other volunteers, ranging from my age to early retirement! Anyway, everyone's really nice and it is great to be with people my age for once!!
The trust is basically divided into the small orphanage (where I am staying) and the Kings school - a fee paying school with about 1150 children from 5 to 16 years old and also serves the medical "outreach" program for disabled children in the surrounding area.
On my first day, wasn't too sure what to expect, although an easy start was obviously not an option I have the joint job of making a syllabus for the entire PE department!...ahhhh!...and heading an english speaking activity, which is actually quite fun, especially as we are preparing the children for a public speaking thing in front of the whole school next month....no pressure then!!
Anyway, we had last weekend off so I headed into the local town and had a look around- I have some clothes to collect today so it will be interesting to see if the cross between slow English and sign language has resulted in the clothes bearing any resemblance to what I asked for!!
Sunday was a bit more exciting as we took a bus load of children from the orphanage to the beach for the day. We were doing some filming for a new DVD to raise more funs but that didn't stop everyone having fun swimming and sun bathing...it's a hard life over here, with palm trees swaying in the breeze and the temperature never falling below 30C during the day!!
As a bit of a side thing, I have also been helping some of the children with their reading in the library and, (as if this isn't enough, I'm also) teaching in the english department…although I am yet to take a class which is just as well as most of the kids could probably teach me more than I could teach them!!
Much love to all
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